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Scriptural Reflections for Lent. The season of Lent - the Church's Spring - begins the celebration of the dying and rising of Jesus, a time of deep personal renewal only completed in the Easter season, and with the rite of Christian initiation of adults, as a time of formation for catechumens.

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Scriptural Reflections for Lent. The season of Lent - the Church's Spring - begins the celebration of the dying and rising of Jesus, a time of deep personal renewal only completed in the Easter season, and with the rite of Christian initiation of adults, as a time of formation for catechumens. The Liturgical readings of this season can lead us into a deeper experience of our Baptism, our death and rebirth in the Lord. As in the early Church, all of us can take the season of Lent, and especially its forty weekdays of fasting, as an opportunity to turn back to the Lord, our God. Patrick J. Ryan SJ received a PhD in the comparative history of religion at Harvard University, and is President of Loyola Jesuit College, a secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria.